These genealogy websites grew out of my hobby of researching my ancestry. As I became fairly good at searching the various websites that have family trees, friends and relatives asked me to give them suggestions for doing similar searches. Instead of telling them how to search for family trees at various sites, I decided to create the a website that made it easier to search for family trees. That website is Family Tree Searcher, www.familytreesearcher.com. I enjoyed the programming and eventually created five websites. These websites help people who are just starting to research their genealogy on the internet.

My practice was aimed at accelerating the understanding and use of software technology.Specialties: I specialized in enterprise architecture with an emphasis in service-oriented architecture, database systems, and object technology. I was also an author, columnist, guest lecturer, international speaker, and mentor.• Provided research and analysis services: - Design review - Technical due diligence for investors - Technical market positioning - Technical research for new or existing patents • Provided customized working sessions for service-oriented architecture: - Envisioning your transition to a service-oriented architecture: A facilitated technical discussion - Transitioning to a service-oriented architecture: Uncovering your organization's issues - Service-oriented decomposition: Getting it right • Coached/mentored corporate managers and project leads on technical issues.• Author or editor of five books. Series editor for the Savvy Manager's Guides, published by Morgan Kaufmann. Wrote over 40 magazine columns or articles listed at www.barryandassociates.com/doug-barry/biblio.html. Also published over 400 pages of online articles at www.service-architecture.com/articles.

• Organized and administered this international consortium of vendors and interested parties working on object storage standards. Developed a specification for an object interface for object and relational database management systems, which was used as a basis for the Java Data Objects (JDO) standard in the Sun Microsystems' Java Community Process.• Edited the three books published by the ODMG.• Served as the technical liaison to the NCITS (ANSI) SQL committee, the Object Management Group (OMG), and the ECMA standards organization.

• Directed the design and implementation of the Itasca distributed object database management system.• Represented the company before Wall Street investment firms, venture capital firms and other investors.• Negotiated the license for the ORION object database technology with Control Data Corporation and the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). The ORION technology was the basis of the Itasca product.• Participated with MCC attorneys on legal action related to infringements of the MCC ORION technology.

• Technical liaison to the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) for object technology and database systems. MCC was one of the world’s premier software research organizations during the late 1980s through the early 1990s. • Established 17 database technology transfer projects in Control Data business units using MCC technology.• Trained people within Control Data so that they could evaluate object technology.

• Specified the primary corporate processes and interfaces to establish a baseline for new development.• Reviewed and approved top-level designs for major development efforts.• Participated in line organization design teams to work key design issues.• Introduced the use of CASE tools as part of a software quality process.

• Managed development in Minneapolis and Vancouver, Canada.• Established software guidelines for developing process-control software for the grain industry.

• Managed the insured unemployment statistics for the State of Minnesota.• Directed the design for automating the collection of unemployment statistics.